INL – International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory hosted the first Tech@Week dedicated to ‘Industry 4.0’ and the ‘Green Transition’, an event promoted by ANI – Agência Nacional de Inovação.
During the first session of the Tech@Week powered by Tech4Innov discussions revolved around ‘Industry 4.0’, its main trends and challenges and how they are challenging and revolutionizing the way companies manufacture, how they are improving and distributing their products by integrating new technologies and including the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, analytics, and AI and machine learning into their production facilities and throughout their operations.
Participants were also able to attend the Green Disruption Summit 2022, an event that brought together technological StartUps in the areas of cleantech, green economy, sustainable mobility, zero emissions and climate change and addressed topics such as energy, transport and agri-food. This session was by INTEC – European Foundation for Innovation and Technology under the framework of the project HIBA.
During the event, it was also possible to participate in the Tech@Week Demo Session, a showcase of demonstrators of the technologies being developed within Project Baterias 2030, a set of demos covering ICT-based solutions for cognitive vitality training, lightweight electronics by Injection Molding in Seamless Architecture, autonomous systems to harvest raspberry, based on artificial intelligence and robotics, and others and network with various entities: INESC-TEC, Beeverycreative, Instituto Telecomunicações, Simoldes, DTX Colab, CEiiA, University of Minho, CELOPLAS, BOSCH, CENTI, IPN, CTCV, Viridius.
Tech@Weeks is an initiative promoted and organized by ANI that aims to bring together, for a week in the upcoming months, the main actors of the national innovation system to promote empowering debates showcasing technology, innovation and effective results and are being promoted within the scope of SIAC – Knowledge Transfer Initiative, an initiative co-financed by Compete 2020, through Portugal 2020 and the European Regional Development Fund.
i-Grape International Workshop
i-Grape team is organizing the International Workshop on July 18, 2022, at INL – International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory in a hybrid format. During this International Workshop, different scientists and industry representatives will discuss together the outputs of the i-Grape project, as well as the present and the future of Precision Viticulture with contributions from the different latitudes of the world of wine.
ABOUT THE PROJECT
i-GRAPE aims at developing a new generation of analytical methods for stand-alone, on-the-field control of the grape maturation phase and vine hydric stress, based on highly integrated photonic components and modules (wafer and wafer/package level micro-spectrometers). In a highly competitive market, to achieve high-quality wines, measuring and monitoring vine hydric stress, and the grape ripening process with simple, rapid and cost-effective techniques will allow the winemaker to control irrigation in the latest steps of grape maturation, and plan the harvest at the optimum time, therefore, optimizing wine quality at the end of the wine value chain.
The i-GRAPE approach complies, through the development of innovative integrated photonic components and modules, with the needs of a low-cost, reliable, sensitive, stable and high throughput analysis that interconnected with communications and signal processing electronics, can bring the process control of grape maturation into the hands of the winemaker.
And the long-term i-GRAPE vision is to bring the ‘lab” to the vine, and the parameters pertaining to vine and grape control to the home base station on the farm, without human intervention and it can only be achieved by developing smarter and modular systems that allow for future integration of cost-effective multi-mode sensors.
1st Tech@Week dedicated to the ‘Green Transition’ will happen next week at INL
The first Tech@Week starts with the first event dedicated to ‘Industry 4.0’ and the ‘Green Transition’, next week on July 12, at INL – International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory. In this first session, they will explore Industry 4.0 and the Green Transition’s main trends and challenges and how they are challenging and revolutionizing the way companies manufacture, improve and distribute their products by integrating new technologies, including the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing and analytics, and AI and machine learning into their production facilities and throughout their operations.
Tech@Weeks is an initiative promoted and organized by ANI that aims to bring together, for a week in the upcoming months, the main actors of the national innovation system to promote empowering debates showcasing technology, innovation and effective results.
Tech@Weeks are promoted within the scope of SIAC – Knowledge Transfer Initiative, an initiative co-financed by Compete 2020, through Portugal 2020 and the European Regional Development Fund.
SUSTAINABLE NANOFABRICATION: Joint Networking Event — That’s a wrap!
It took a village to make the SUSNANOFAB and NanoFabNet networking event on Sustainable Nanofabrication for the last 3 days at INL – International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Braga – Portugal. We couldn’t have done it without the organization, all the team members, all participants and sponsors.
The 3-day programme included a panel dedicated to industry, innovation and research, composed of renowned speakers that addressed the hot topics on sustainable nanofabrication and nanomanufacturing; brokerage sessions that explored potential business and technological collaboration opportunities in the nanofabrication and nanomanufacturing ecosystem; a co-creation session that assessed the impact of the proposed actions and stimulate implementation ideas within the “SUSNANOFAB Roadmap for an EU-wide strategy on nanofabrication”; training sessions in Safe and Sustainable by Design and Standardization; and the we witnessed the beginning of a stimulating and promising meeting point for industrial-scale nanofabrication – the NanoFabNet Hub.
This 3-day networking event started and ended with a firm statement: nanofabrication has the potential to address significant socio-economic challenges, and its undeniably vast potential must be optimized.
Moreover, we felt the spirit of sharing, a unique co-creation energy, and a strong will to follow up with concrete actions that will contribute to a robust and sustainable nanofab ecosystem.
Lars Montelius at IndTech2022 presenting the Materials 2030 Roadmap
The Director-General of INL – International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Lars Montelius presented last week, at IndTech 2022, the Materials 2030 Roadmap, during the Plenary session: Systemic Approach for Advanced Materials: 2030 Perspective chaired by Joanna Drake, Deputy Director-General of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for the Environment.
After a general presentation of the initiative by INL DG Lars Montelius ( INL – International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory is one of the signatories of the Materials 2030 Manifesto) the representatives of the 4 technology platforms also involved in the initiative pointed out the expected benefits of uniting all the advanced materials stakeholders in one main goal and objectives.
For Lars Montelius, it was a real pleasure to present the Materials 2030 Roadmap, such an inclusive project. A great set of activities are being developed and we are already working together to present new developments in the near future.
On 7 February 2022, a Materials 2030 Manifesto was presented by high-level representatives from European research institutes and industries to Commissioner Gabriel. It stressed the importance of the EU’s technology leadership, strategic autonomy and the role of advanced materials. It invites stakeholders to combine more closely upstream research with industry-driven applications in innovation markets.
Building on the vision of the Materials 2030 Manifesto, on 22 June, the ‘Materials 2030 Roadmap’ was published. The goal of this Roadmap is to pave the way for the engagement of all advanced materials stakeholders and co-create the European materials agenda with R&I stakeholders and the proposed next steps towards a structured Materials 2030 initiative will be discussed during the upcoming IndTech2022 conference.
You can download the Materials 20230 Roadmap here.
Next Page » « Previous Page -->The Director-General of INL – International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Lars Montelius presented last week, at IndTech 2022, the Materials 2030 Roadmap, during the Plenary session: Systemic Approach for Advanced Materials: 2030 Perspective chaired by Joanna Drake, Deputy Director-General of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for the Environment.
After a general presentation of the initiative by INL DG Lars Montelius ( INL – International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory is one of the signatories of the Materials 2030 Manifesto) the representatives of the 4 technology platforms also involved in the initiative pointed out the expected benefits of uniting all the advanced materials stakeholders in one main goal and objectives.
For Lars Montelius, it was a real pleasure to present the Materials 2030 Roadmap, such an inclusive project. A great set of activities are being developed and we are already working together to present new developments in the near future.
On 7 February 2022, a Materials 2030 Manifesto was presented by high-level representatives from European research institutes and industries to Commissioner Gabriel. It stressed the importance of the EU’s technology leadership, strategic autonomy and the role of advanced materials. It invites stakeholders to combine more closely upstream research with industry-driven applications in innovation markets.
Building on the vision of the Materials 2030 Manifesto, on 22 June, the ‘Materials 2030 Roadmap’ was published. The goal of this Roadmap is to pave the way for the engagement of all advanced materials stakeholders and co-create the European materials agenda with R&I stakeholders and the proposed next steps towards a structured Materials 2030 initiative will be discussed during the upcoming IndTech2022 conference.